Old Shop Tricks

[Southern Ray]

Was surfing You-Tube and came across this video. I bit.
This is my score.
How many can you remember doing?

Yes-24,23,21 wooden stick, 20,19,15,13,12,11,10,8,5,2 WD-40

No-22,18,17,9,4

Heard of it but No- 25,16,14,7,6,3,1

 

[Tgrasher]

Back when afro hair was in style, a bil and I had put a different engine in a car. He was tall and bending over the engine while I turned the key from inside the car. It backfired with a flame similar to the video and caught his hair on fire. He didn't get burned but had to go to the barber the next day to get his hair recut to look right.

 

[spacechem]

Nothing against the information- most of us could write this- but I hope you realize this 'guy' is an AI creation?

 

[NDIHC]

Didja notice that all of the cars looked a little "off"? Like the round tail lights in the place where the rectangular or oval 67 impala lights would have gone. Or the 69/70 Chevy pickup with the late 50s IH pickup body line on the front fenders. As the disclaimer that accompanies most AI "news" stories says: "this was generated using AI, which can make mistakes".

 

[olddavid]

Many, many years ago I knew a guy who said he needed some gas to prime the carburetor in his car but didn't have anything to put it so he took a swig and spit it in. He was pretty proud of his improvising. Yikes!

 

[Teakettle]

Many, many years ago I knew a guy who said he needed some gas to prime the carburetor in his car but didn't have anything to put it so he took a swig and spit it in. He was pretty proud of his improvising. Yikes!

A rather well-known magician (I won't name him) decided to teach some local teens in a parking area how to do fire eating "without hurting yourself". He asked them to come up with a wire coat hanger, a lighter, and a length of thin plastic hose. He had them mouth-siphon some gas out of a parked car using the hose and put it on the cotton balls which had been wrapped in the end of the straightened wire hanger. He then showed them that if you light the cotton and carefully close your lips around the hanger just below the cotton, the fire will stop for lack of oxygen. Now _that's_ improvising (even if it's potentially dangerous as heck in several different possible ways).